Home Tanning of Leather and Small Fur Skins

This vintage book contains a complete guide to tanning leather, with information on tools and equipment, required materials, different techniques, benefits, common problems, and many other related aspects. Easy-to-digest and full of invaluable tips, this handbook is highly recommended for novice leatherworkers, and would make for a useful addition to collections of leatherworking literature. Contents include: 'Leather Crafting', 'Having Hides Tanned', 'Buying Leather by the Side', Home Tanning', 'Tanning Hides and Skins for Leather', 'Bark-Tanned Sole and Harness Leather', 'Chrome-Tanned Leather', 'Alum-Tanned Lace Leather', 'Tanning Fur Skins', 'Soaking and Fleshing', etc. Many vintage books like this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on leather crafting.